entropicdrift

entropicdrift, 3 dni temu

Poor guy. I mean he’s ridiculously lucky to be as famous as he is and to have been compensated fairly for the rest of his Sonic/SEGA music but it sucks that one of his most famous works has effectively been stolen by a corporation’s sense of entitlement.

entropicdrift, 7 dni temu

A number of the best games of all time are quite cheap:

Tetris (pretty much any version)

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (use OpenRCT2 to run it well on a modern PC)

Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 2 (use The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod to add back in the stuff the devs had to cut for time, otherwise the ending is disappointing)

Balatro ($9.99 on mobile or $19.99 when bundled with Slay The Spire on Steam)

Slay The Spire

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (free and open source)

DOOM (the original, not the 2016 game, very cheap and there are literally millions of mods and community made maps)

entropicdrift, 29 dni temu

Yes, it was very influential and massively popular.

It also had all these rip-offs come out 3-4 years after it because that’s just how long it takes to make that type of game at a reasonable scale

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I loved the Walking Dead series

entropicdrift, 2 miesiące temu

This dude’s videos impress me to no end

entropicdrift, 2 miesiące temu

Is that Reinhard Von Musel?

entropicdrift, 3 miesiące temu

I loved my DS the best of any non-PC handheld I have owned.

Final Fantasy 3 took up many many hours on car rides. Castlevania Portrait of Ruin is an all-time banger of a game, glad it finally got republished in a collection.

The first game I got on DS was Super Mario 64 DS, which, on top of having one of the finest minigame collections of any handheld game and being able to do single-card multi-player via download play, was a fine adaptation of one of the greatest platformer games ever made.

Brain Age and its offshoots spawned a whole cottage industry. Really, the DS was one of the first widely owned devices that had a decently reliable touch screen, so it got used for a lot of non-gaming stuff in addition to having such a huge library of games.

Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum are the best of the classic top-down JRPG style Pokemon games IMO, so the DS also gets credit for having the peak of those games.

The original DS was also home to some of the best point and click adventure games of its era, like 999. This was before Telltale really took off with The Walking Dead, Batman, etc and the genre was mostly dead in the west at the time, so when some quirky Japanese point and click escape room/mystery games dropped it really was incredibly refreshing at the time. Those games still hold up IMO.

When the 3DS came out, I was a little disappointed by the StreetPass features. I live in a fairly rural area so I would only get to play Mii Adventure or whatever it was called when I would go into a city for a convention or something similar where you knew a large concentration of nerds was going to exist. I suppose it makes more sense in Japan with their higher population density. Regardless, the 3DS’ Gamecube-tier graphics, nicer buttons, better screen, and control stick all make it a superior machine to the DS in every iteration.

It’s really just a shame that Nintendo used the 3DS naming scheme. Like with the WiiU it led to consumer confusion where parents assumed it was just an upgrade on the original and not a whole new console generation. The naming implied it was just the next model after the DSi-XL and that all it added was 3D, rather than being Nintendo’s first properly online handheld and having a generational leap in raw power.

If I were going to buy a dual-screened handheld today, I’d probably go for the AYANEO Flip DS, which seems to be basically a next-gen Steam Deck but with the DS form factor. That said, it’s pretty pricey.

entropicdrift, 3 miesiące temu

Luigi in Mario Kart, Link or Marth or Mewtwo, depending on which Smash game.

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GETTIN OLDER ALL THE TIME

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Yeah, no. The main point of the multi-player is to get help from allies. It’s only if you get that help that anyone can invade your game in Elden Ring

entropicdrift, 3 miesiące temu

It’s like day-ta vs dah-tah/dah-tuh

entropicdrift, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Even earlier, Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 is the earliest one I can think of.

Likewise Dungeon from the same year might be the earliest Empoisoned

EDIT: Nah, Pong predates Dungeon.

One of the first arcade games (1971) was Computer Space. Kinda feels halfway between the two, so that’s fun.

EDIT 2: Think I found the earliest Jumble’s Big Bumble: Hunt The Wumpus, first distributed in May of 1973

entropicdrift, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah, agreed. You can appreciate the art and still think the guy is a douche who people shouldn’t have to put up with

entropicdrift, 5 miesięcy temu

Setting up multiple controllers on the Steam Deck is mostly plug and play. At worst you need to run the mapper, which takes all of 2 minutes

entropicdrift, 7 miesięcy temu

Zelda 2 is more of an RPG than ODST, but the thrust of your argument is true.

entropicdrift, 8 miesięcy temu

Just what we needed, more open world AAA games.

Does nobody remember Dynasty Warriors 9?

entropicdrift, 8 miesięcy temu

I didn’t say it was inherently bad. I expressed my opinion and nothing more.

Let people have opinions

entropicdrift, 9 miesięcy temu

I’m not sure how else they could have renamed it

Ooh, I love this game!

System Shock: SHODAN Edition

System Shock: Remake

System Shock: Unreal Edition

System Shock: Reconstructed

System Shock: Mainframe Edition

IDK, one of those probably. The trend of naming remakes or reboots the same exact name of the originals is tiresome to me.

Like Lords of The Fallen and Lords of The Fallen. Or King Kong and King Kong and King Kong. Or Godzilla and Godzilla and Godzilla.

The need to say the year when talking about something is annoying in conversation.

I love Doom, but found Doom just OK, y’know?

entropicdrift, 9 miesięcy temu

Here’s a few more. I’m only including full remakes and not any remasters, since we’re talking about the System Shock remake:

Ocarina of Time 3D

Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp

Counter Strike: Source

Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy

Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed

DuckTales: Remastered

Dune 2000

The House of The Dead: Remake

Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe

The Last of Us Part I

Mafia: Definitive Edition

Mega Man: The Wily Wars

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Metal Slug X

Metroid: Zero Mission

Metroid: Samus Returns

realMyst

Pac-Man World: Re-Pac

Panzer Dragoon: Remake

Pokemon: HeartGold and SoulSilver

Pokemon: FireRed and LeafGreen

Pokemon: Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

entropicdrift, 11 miesięcy temu

I should tell my brother-in-law about this because he’s made and remade stram accounts like 6 times because he keeps forgetting the passwords (also forgets his email account passwords and abandons those)

entropicdrift, 11 miesięcy temu

Because somehow despite our society’s overabundance of wealth and power, we’re all working more hours/days than most humans in history.

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1998 is up there too.

I mean you’ve got Ocarina of Time, Baldur’s Gate 1, Half Life, Banjo Kazooie, Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil 2, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sonic Adventure, Pokemon Red and Blue (in the US, Yellow dropped that year in Japan), Goldeneye 007, Metal Gear Solid, Spyro The Dragon, Starcraft, the first Thief game, Xenogears, Unreal (as in Unreal Engine), Crash Bandicoot 3, Gran Turismo 1 (in North America and the EU), Tekken 3, Beatmania, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Mario Party 1, Tribes 1, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit (aka the first good one), Fallout 2, Gex: Enter The Gecko, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Castlevania: Symphony of The Night, Jazz Jackrabbit 2…

Suffice it to say that a lot of wildly important game franchises started that year, and several older ones were reborn in 3D for the first time.

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BG3 handles failure better than almost any game I’ve ever played. Fuck around, find out. Be free of your need to always win and just play the game however you want.

Worst case you start over with a totally different character.

Playing out all the possibilities is half the fun!

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The base game of 2077 is pretty good now that 2.0 is out. My biggest issie with it at launch was the lack of cyberspace for hacker player characters. Felt like the game was funneling me towards standard FPS gameplay, even if there are a lot of options within that realm

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PC has multiple marketplaces and the most competition.

The problem isn’t digital vs physical, it’s monopolies vs healthy markets. The market for physical media tends to be healthier for consoles because it’s at least a lot closer to being impossible to monopolize compared to consoles’ online stores, which are monopolies by default with no aftermarket for competition

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Did you not hear about the new Ron Gilbert-made Monkey Island that dropped last year?

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I’m favoring h265 10-bit for my library recently. Whether SDR or not, it seems to provide a slightly better compression ratio and fewer banding artifacts than 8-bit. Any player that can handle 4K streaming content can decode h265 10-bit, so there’s a ton of forward compatibility for the foreseeable future

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Yep, this. This is why I’m still favoring HEVC over AV1 or even VP9 right now: player compatibility and ease of Jellyfin transcoding.

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AAC is generally more modern and better for lower bitrates, but AC3 (also known as Dolby Digital) has the advantage of being able to be transmitted in 5.1 over SPIDF optical connections, so it can allow for surround sound in older setups that may not otherwise be able to recieve digital surround sound.

Opus is slightly better than AAC at matched bitrates, slightly less commonly supported, and totally open-source. It’s a fine choice as well.

Also of note because of its use for anime encodes is FLAC, which is lossless and therefore results in much larger files, but will always have the exact same quality as the original audio it encoded, so it’s excellent for archival quality.

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Obviously they wanted to make a 45-minute tiktok /s

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Agreed. The biggest issue for me, as a PC gamer who expected bugs at launch, was really that it’s a stealth/action game that was marketed as an RPG even though it has precious few consequential choices or playstyle options.

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The only ports you need to expose from Gluetun are the ones for the webUI for each of the containers you’re running thru it. You should never expose the port for incoming connections since that would make your torrenting traffic avoid the VPN.

Your qBittorrent and *arr containers should be run with network: “service: gluetun” in your docker-compose file (assuming you’re using compose)

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They said local co-op in their post, I’m assuming they mean couch co-op

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For The King

Baldur’s Gate 3

Streets of Rogue

Wizard of Legend

Human: Fall Flat

Untitled Goose Game

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I’ve used AirVPN for years. Works great

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Buggiest and one of the best written. RPGs need high quality writing.

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Never said it was perfect, but the game got great reviews and won a bunch of awards because it’s good despite the bugs.

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This comment is 100% on-point, I’m just here to address a pet peeve: Queue = a line that you wait in, like waiting to checkout at the store Cue = something that sets off something else, e.g. “when Jimmy says his line, that’s your cue to enter stage left”

So when you said:

Queue BG3, where Larian got added money from Wizards of the Coast that they could invest into the graphics.

What you meant was:

Cue BG3, where Larian got added money from Wizards of the Coast that they could invest into the graphics.

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Trogdor ended up being the big bad of my brother-in-law’s homebrew campaign that he ran for our family D&D group

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Not just multiplayer-inspired. Fully multiplayer start to finish, if you want

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Plenty of communities in that vein overe here on lemmy.sdf.org

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D&D itself is close to the highest popularity it’s ever been at (I suppose with this game now it is at the peak), what with the movie having brought mainstream attention to it and Critical Role and other actual play shows bringing buckets of attention to the game/TTRPG hobby over the last 8ish years.

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Not to mention it’s in 28 parts if you’re downloading the standalone installer and not using Galaxy.

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Copying my previous comment from Sunday:

Played it all day yesterday. It still has some bugs and if you play co-op you should do it in a separate save file because you can’t ever remove your offline friends’ characters from your party, but at a mechanical level, the game is a masterpiece.

It’s D&D 5e translated with extreme loving detail into a video game. Conversation is nearly as engaging as combat and many of the NPCs have massive dialogue trees, all fully voiced. You can switch between using a controller to directly control your character or using the traditional keyboard and mouse controls like the older Baldurs Gate games.

Hells, the character creator is probably worthy of an award by itself

I’m now 38 hours in and my opinions are basically the same, though I will add that I love how fast they’ve been patching it. If Larian ever release DLC or expansions for this game I’d expect them to be the best goddamned expansions I’ve seen in at least the last 10 years.

I’m really hoping it’s reasonably moddable because I’ve little doubt the community would love to mod entire custom campaigns into this engine.

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It’s D&D.

Do you like D&D? If so, yes. If not, no.

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That’s true of D&D in general. Like yes, technically there’s a main quest, but honestly they all kinda intertwine in a big plot soup.

No wonder there’s 17,000 endings.

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I switched from using Lutris to using Heroic for my GoG/Epic games. Works perfectly for me. When in doubt, Heroic with the latest Proton-GE plays basically any Windows game, and for GoG it handles the native Linux download/install way more consistently than Lutris and its pile of crowdsourced scripts.

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Linux with 6.1 kernel and Kisask-Mesa drivers on an RX 6700XT: Vulkan works better with fewer crashes/glitches for me. Also seems to load a little faster, but that could just be because I’ve used it more so there’s more cached shaders.